I want to thank all of you who pressured the US government over the past few years to release my fellow jihadis from Gitmo. Thanks to all of your efforts, we almost pulled this latest terrorist attack off. If not for a faulty charge, I would be right now enjoying my 72 year old virgin instead of nursing my badly burnt balls.

Sincerely, Abdul Mutallab, the Detroit Ball Bomber.

Remember folks, though B.Hussein Obama was not the president at the time of the release of these two jihadis from Gitmo, he was most certainly a part of the chorous in the Senate demanding Gitmo to be closed, and in part, responsible for the pressure heaped on the then president, G.W.Bush, to be releasing prisoners as soon as possible.

Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, ABC News is reporting, quoting American officials and citing Department of Defense documents.

American officials agreed to send the two terrorists to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an ‘art therapy rehabilitation program’ and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials, ABC News reported.

Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari, were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody. Al-Harbi has since changed his name to Muhamad al-Awfi.

Pamela at Atlas has this off topic but related observation: Buffoon of the blogosphere. Who is paying this clown?

Northeast Intelligence Network had a link to an extremely graphic video that actually made me wretch. I only watched a couple of minute of it.

In the video above, we see people restrained, and then their hands are hacked off, oh so slowly and painfully, looks like with not particularly sharp knives. The video I watched at NIN had people wrapped up in some sort of large cloth, and then they did the exact same thing, with their heads! Slow…agonizing, with the body of the poor victim, even while being restrained, struggling spastically, obviously in horrid pain, wanting to hang on to dear life. And it showed the underside of the cuts, and all the blood. I think maybe Charles Manson would be horrified.

I believe Pamela Geller, that this video, horrifying though it be, is tame compared to most of what is out there.

The Obama Administration is preparing for the Gitmo Detainees’ imminent release into the United States.

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Dear Concerned Citizen:

Thank you for your recent letter of concern about the treatment of the Taliban and al Qaeda detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This Administration takes these matters seriously, and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington.

You’ll be pleased to learn that, thanks to the concerns of citizens like you, we are creating a new division of the Terrorist Retraining Program, to be called the “Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers” program, or LARK for short. In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to place one terrorist under your personal care.

Your personal detainee has been selected and scheduled for transportation under heavily-armed guard to your residence next Monday. Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him “Al”) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers.

We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your letter.

Ahmed’s meal requirements are simple, but we strongly suggest serving meals that do not require utensils, particularly knives and forks. Also, these should be “one-handed” foods; Ahmed will not eat with his left hand since he uses it to wipe himself after purging his bowels (which he will do in your yard) – but look on the bright side… no increase in the toilet paper bill!

He generally bathes quarterly with the change of seasons, assuming that it rains, and he washes his clothes simultaneously. This should help with your water bill.

Also, your new friend has a really bad case of body lice that hasn’t been completely remedied. Please heed the large orange notice attached to your detainee’s cage: “Does not play well with others.”

Although Ahmed is sociopathic and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his “attitudinal problem” will help him overcome these character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences. He will bite you, given the chance, but his rabies test came back negative so not to worry.

We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling. Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We do not suggest that you ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.

Ahmed will not wish to interact with your wife or daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property. However, he will be eager to assist with the education of your sons; have available for their use several copies of the Q’uran.

Oh, and rest assured that he absolutely loves animals, especially cats and dogs. He prefers them roasted, but raw is fine, too, if they aren’t more than 2 or 3 days dead.

Thanks again for your letter. We will be sending a team of federal officials with expertise in your line of work to your place of business soon, just to help you do your job better.

Don’t be concerned that we have the power to close your business, seize your property, and arrest you for any violation of the 4,850,206 federal laws, codes, regulations and rules that apply to your profession. We’re really there just to make sure you’re doing everything the proper way. That is what you wanted, right? Change and hope.

Well, thank you for this opportunity to interact with such a valued member of the citizenry.

While Crowder makes some good points, and he’s made yet another funny video, I can’t endorse waterboarding or minimize it’s effects. On the one hand, it really depends on the details of a given waterboarding episode.

But in the end, I think I gotta go with Hillel on this, “Whatever is hateful to you, do not do to your brother–that is the whole Torah. All the rest is commentary.” Of course, it could be argued that a jihadi who is out to kill as many Americans or non-Muslims as possible, and has declared his intent to do exactly that, is not my brother. Soooo…I’m still thinking this over.

I’m also concerned about he principle of midah kneged midah — measure for measure. If we endorse torture, then we have no moral standing to argue against it when our people suffer torture at the hands of our enemies.